The theater is a few steps away from the place where the families of the hostages stay.  And tonight we went to a play — about a  guy who is dying and miraculously recovers.  I guess the idea is that one should never give up hope.  

Maybe it even was a dialogue with the hostages.  Maybe I just saw it that way because I am obsessed with the pain of the hostages.  

But the interface of the world of culture with the world of torture and starvation is too much to bear.